The long-running legal battle between actor Jussie Smollett and the City of Chicago has come to an end.

City officials announced Thursday that Smollett will pay $50,000 to the BBF Building Brighter Futures Center for the Arts, a local nonprofit that serves under-resourced youth with community, health, and education programs. This payment resolves the city’s 2019 lawsuit, which aimed to recover more than $130,000 spent investigating what police determined was a staged attack orchestrated by Smollett.

Smollett had already paid the city $10,000 in 2019.

In a statement, Chicago’s Department of Law called the agreement “a fair, constructive, and conclusive resolution,” and said it allows all parties to move on from the six-year-old case.

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